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Staff writer Marilyn Gardner of the Christian Science Monitor reports, “Angela Watson remembers the pleasure of childhood stamp collecting. Whenever friends and family gave her stamps, especially from foreign countries, she would study them. Then she would turn to the Encyclopedia Britannica for more information.”
Angela is quoted in an article [...]
Stamp Collecting - An Old School Hobby
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Reporter Christopher Hall of the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier Journal writes that, “Stamp collecting is an old-school hobby, but it could be making a comeback as people start to return to older, simpler hobbies.”
Stamp show organizer Steve Schinbeckler thinks stamp collecting is a growing hobby.
Steve puts on 15 shows [...]
Auction House Re-enters Philatelic Market
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Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, Texas, the world’s third largest auction company, is re-entering the philatelic market after 15 years with its Inaugural Signature® Stamp Auction to be held in Dallas and online, Feb. 5-7, 2009 according to the News-Antique.com website.
Among the items to be auctioned off; 1847 Franklin 5-cent [...]
Return to sender?
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
I’m usually not a fan of first day covers and other, “philatelical market oriented” covers, especially if they are not even addressed to someone, which nowadays seems to be the preferred way to collect that stuff. The FDCs in my day at least had your address on and were actually sent to [...]
Post Office Going Out of Business?
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Time Magazine reports, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will keep your mail carrier from making the daily rounds, promises the U.S. Postal Service’s unofficial motto — but the economy might.”
According to an article by reporter Laura Fitzpatrick, “With 9.5 billion fewer letters and packages delivered [...]
Top 10 Extraordinary Stamps of 2008
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StampNews.Com has come up with a list of the “Top 10 Extraordinary Stamps of 2008.”
These are;
#1. Embroidered stamp of Austria.
#2. UEFA EURO 2008 Ball Stamp.
#3. Imagine Peace Tower on New Icelandic Stamp.
#4. Rally Driver Shows his View of Aland.
#5. Lithuania’s drop-shaped stamp.
#6. Living images on Alpine Skiing stamps.
#7. Experience a [...]
Expensive
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Stamps on stamps and souvenir sheets and the like are a great way to get a little closer to those elusive, expensive, rare items that you will probably never own. One of those is the 1959 Canada St Lawrence Seaway inverted centre. I believe they rate at some £10,000 each at the [...]
APS Alaska Album Available for Download
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The American Philatelic Society is offering a free 15-page Stamps of Alaska album.
The mini-album showcases United States stamps that are related to the Alaska’s history and geography, its people, plants and animals. Created in cooperation with the Scott Publishing Co., it has spaces for 59 stamps including a 10-stamp Nature [...]
Free Screening of Stamp Related Films at National Postal Museum
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The National Postal Museum is having a free screening of two stamp related films this Saturday, Jan. 10, in Washington, D.C.
Jezebel (1938) stars Bette Davis as a headstrong, independent southern belle who shocks her New Orleans community with her spitfire behavior and a certain red dress.
Also starring Henry Fonda, Jezebel [...]
But not out with the old!
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
That’s right. I may sometime rave about newer issues that I like but my heart still lies with the older stuff. I’m still working (very slowly, but still) on completing the older Dutch years, and was therefore pleased to win a couple of lots in the auction of the ASNP. Among them [...]
Mush!
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
Alaska governor and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended first-day-of-issue ceremonies for the 50th Anniversary of Alaska Statehood stamp held in Anchorage, AK yesterday.
Palin is quoted in a USPS press release as saying,”We are so pleased to work with the United States Postal Service in presenting a design [...]
Finnish Youngsters Show Feelings at Postal Museum
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Franz Groter of Hellmail.co.uk reports the Finnish Postal Museum is arranging an interactive exhibition experience for children starting Jan. 14 through Mar. 22, 2009 called “We Share The Emotion.”
According to Franz, “The exhibition, which explores four basic emotions: happiness, anger, fear and joy, strives to convey the idea of how [...]
ATA Announces ‘Celebrate America’ Contest
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Linn’s reports that the American Topical Association (ATA) is sponsoring a new contest for young collectors.
Called “Celebrate America”, young persons need to create a one-page mini-exhibit on some aspect of the United States.
First, second and third place prizes will be awarded in each of the following age groups: 8 and [...]
Happy New Year!
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In with the new…
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Let’s do wacky today, and if there’s one country that does a good job of making wacky stamps, it’s the Netherlands. Here are two prime examples:
This is a sheet full of gnomes, and although they’re rather stylized, they are still very much recognizable as the gnomes of our youth, the ones that [...]
